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Lightning express; or, The rival academies. / By Oliver Optic, author of "Young America abroad," "The army and navy stories," "The Woodville stories," "The boat-club stories," "The starry flag stories," etc.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Optic, Oliver, 1822-1897.
- Series:
- Optic, Oliver, 1822-1897. Lake Shore series ; v. 2.
- Lake Shore series ; v. 2
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Children's stories.
- Corporations--Juvenile fiction.
- Corporations.
- Money--Juvenile fiction.
- Money.
- Railroad stories.
- Young men--Juvenile fiction.
- Young men.
- Steamboats--Juvenile fiction.
- Steamboats.
- Young women--Juvenile fiction.
- Young women.
- Boats and boating--Juvenile fiction.
- Boats and boating.
- War stories.
- Genre:
- Railroad stories.
- War stories.
- Juvenile literature -- 1870.
- Publishers' advertisements -- Massachusetts -- Boston.
- Relief prints.
- Publishers' cloth bindings (Binding) -- 1870.
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 312 pages, 8 unnumbered pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates ; 18 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Boston: : Lee and Shepard., 1870.
- Notes:
- "Lightning express is the second volume of the Lake Shore series, and has been published in Oliver Optic's magazine, Our boys and girls."--Preface, p. 5, dated at Harrison Square, Mass., July 21, 1869.
- By William Taylor Adams (i.e., "Oliver Optic").
- Copyright 1869 by William T. Adams.
- "Electrotyped at the Boston Stereotype Foundry, no. 19 Spring Land."--verso of title page.
- In purple cloth.
- Plates engraved on wood; some engravings signed by Reimunt Sayer and Samuel Smith Kilburn.
- "The Lake Shore series."--series title, transposed from head of title page. Numbered list, p. [4].
- Local Notes:
- American Antiquarian Society copy bears label printed in gilt: Gold metal toilet quilt E.W. & F.
- Cited in:
- Jones, D.B. Oliver Optic, 068
- Hamilton, S. Amer. book illustrators (1958 ed.), 1196
- OCLC:
- 40750406
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